forewent

He didn’t own a car and forewent a cell phone until Mortimer and Rosen bought him one so they could keep track of their elusive protagonist.
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Commerce for the time forewent its eminence, the soldier stepped to the front.
Lincoln, the Politician|T. Aaron Levy
It was through the intervention of Ugolino that he forewent this mission.
Brother Francis|Eileen Douglas
But this I know: it was out of their inordinate desire for joy that they forewent joy.
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Let him catch them ashore at Wapping, if the devil forewent his due; let him catch them, that was all!
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S—— forewent for a moment his amber mouthpiece to give us his experience and opinion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI.|Various

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forewent

/ (fɔːˈwɛnt) /

verb

the past tense of forego 1

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